Anarchist
Sharing a message from Amir here, worth reading: I've tried to think many times what the future of money or economics looks like. When you are trapped within a system, it's hard to escape its mental gravity, in the same way the soviet citizens lived in a state of 'hyper-normalisation'. They had grown up in the system and couldn't imagine any other form of existence which made their escape much harder. For this I find it often helpful to turn to history, such as the origins of finance in mesopotamia (see Werner for example), or history of technology. The Sovereign Individual written in 1997 argues that cryptocurrency will lead to the demise of the nation-state, decisively undermining its ability to extract wealth from society. Together with Cryptonomicon (which I plan to read next), these are are fundamental historical crypto-anarchist texts. The book argues history from the perspective of purely material forces which through this lens it arrives to many interesting...